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Daily
Company blog · daily.co/blogaiweb
Daily is the company blog at daily.co, writing about ai and web. Since 2018, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 64 times, most often “Rethinking Levels, Promotions and Salaries”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (23) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Engineering and product blog from Daily, a WebRTC video platform. Commenters mostly name the product, and link posts on voice-agent benchmarks, WebRTC recording, a React renderer and promotion levels.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 23 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Daily is the team behind Pipecat. Ultra low latency, open source SDKs, and enterprise reliability since 2016.
Most-linked posts?
- /6 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2018-05-10
- Rethinking Levels, Promotions and Salaries3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-02-18
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-02-19
- Building Voice Agents with Nvidia Open Models3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-06
- Benchmarking STT for Voice Agents – 10 Services, 1k Samples, Semantic WER2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-16
- How to talk to an LLM (with your voice)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-17
What Hacker News says?
Shameless plug, our startup makes a video-calling-in-Chrome application. Our goals are being super-reliable, simple, and free: https://daily.co
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on “How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?”Submitted Implementing API Billing with Stripe as a story · 180 points
HN discussionAs mentioned above, I don't think you'd need to train your own model for this (or for most use cases of this, anyway). You'd use a RAG. I've tried out working with custom documents in two different ways for different types of data: * Once using LlamaIndex + Chroma[0] to transcribe and then conversationally query video contents (using GPT 3.5 or 4 as the backing LLM). * Once using GPT Plus, uploading long-form PDFs o…
Comment linking /blog/search-your-video-content-library-with-llamaindex-and-chroma/
on “Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents in Dec 2023?”Submitted Video Live Streaming: Notes on RTMP, HLS, and WebRTC as a story · 164 points
HN discussionI think subscriptions are complicated because the surface area of the problem is so large. The Stripe Billing APIs (the recurring revenue/subscriptions part of Stripe) have gotten very good. But the challenges involved in the average subscription implementation are a lot bigger than the challenges involved in implementing simple checkout workflows for non-recurring charges. We wrote a blog post detailing our Stripe…
Comment linking /blog/implementing-api-billing-with-stripe
on “Stripe CLI”Submitted How and why Daily is using Rust for our WebRTC APIs as a story · 138 points
HN discussionThere are a lot of use cases for WebRTC. Video calls are the biggest one right now. But anything you can imagine that needs low-latency (<200ms) video or audio is something you can potentially do with WebRTC in a browser, these days. There's a huge amount of interesting stuff going on. WebRTC is fundamentally peer-to-peer. But scaling up to larger calls, and doing things like recording, generally requires routing th…
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on “Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC”Submitted Rethinking Levels, Promotions and Salaries as a story · 130 points
HN discussionWhy exactly does it seem worse? Last year I switched from a FAANG to a Series B startup that does experience-based levels, and in my observation it's just better in every way. Here's a blog post explaining their approach: https://www.daily.co/blog/rethinking-levels-promotions-and-s... Maybe it's not possible to switch from a cutthroat promotion-oriented environment to this, but it's worth thinking about for anyone b…
Comment linking /blog/rethinking-levels-promotions-and-salaries/
on “The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures”Submitted How to build a billion dollar audio app in a weekend as a story · 76 points
HN discussionWe'd really love for you to try our startup's WebRTC calls + screen-sharing + dial-in application. Free video calls and telephone dial-in. We work really hard on call quality, reliability, and UX, building on top of the (increasingly good) core WebRTC spec/implementation available in Chrome. (And other browsers are coming along, too.) https://www.daily.co/ We hugely value feedback about quality and reliability, espe…
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on “Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand”Submitted Add Live Captions (Deepgram, YC W16) to Your Daily (YC W16) Prebuilt Calls as a story · 20 points
HN discussion:-) ... We're a WebRTC startup - https://daily.co - completely free WebRTC calls in Chrome, up to 50 participants in a call, free dial-in numbers in 25+ countries. Meeting recording coming later this month. Edge and Safari support soon.
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on “Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand”Submitted Daily’s Global Mesh Network as a story · 15 points
HN discussionDaily | Full Time | All Remote (anywhere in the world) | https://daily.co We make APIs for video calls and live video. We have open roles for experienced Android, WebRTC, gstreamer (or similar), and customer-facing engineers. We're also hiring for product marketing and growth positions. We are growing fast, are well funded, and are a fully remote team that loves building tools and that values kindness and diversity.…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)”Submitted Tips to improve WebRTC video call browser performance as a story · 7 points
HN discussionTry https://www.daily.co
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on “Working remotely, 4 years in”Submitted How we run remote standups with Standuply as a story · 7 points
HN discussionDaily | Engineers (WebRTC, infrastructure, frontend, Rust, HLS) | Remote anywhere in the world | full time | https://www.daily.co/jobs We make APIs for real-time audio and video. We have multiple open engineering positions. If you like distributed systems, udp networking, video codecs, or building terrific interfaces and dashboards for developers, we'd love to talk to you! We're fully remote, hire anywhere in the wo…
Comment linking /blog/daily-announces-a-15m-series-a-led-by-lachy-groom/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”Submitted What I've learned working as a remote employee as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI have a dog in this fight, but strongly recommend that you do not move to [the] Zoom [Video SDK]. tldr: architecture that doesn't work for web apps, performance issues, missing features https://www.daily.co/blog/zoom-web-sdk-technical-notes/
Comment linking /blog/zoom-web-sdk-technical-notes/
on “Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio”Submitted Confrere Is Joining Daily as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAn automatic video editor. It should be cheap enough to deploy that it can be applied to relatively low-value content like video meeting recordings, so it can’t spend a lot of expensive GPU time analyzing video frames. It also needs to be easily customizable for various content verticals and visual styling like branding and graphics overlays. And everything is meant to be open sourced, so that’s fun! I wrote about i…
Comment linking /blog/automatic-short-form-video-highlight-reels-at-scale-with-ai-and-vcsrender/
on “Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?”Submitted Building Voice Agents with Nvidia Open Models as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDaily (YC W16) | Remote anywhere | Full-time | https://www.daily.co/jobs At Daily we make video+audio APIs for developers. We deploy real-time WebRTC, RTP, GStreamer, RTMP, and HLS infrastructure at scale and always have interesting low-level networking and distributed systems problems to solve! We ship REST, Javascript, Kotlin, and Swift APIs, with the goal of making easy things easy and hard things possible. Inter…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)”Submitted How to talk to an LLM (with your voice) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFull technical write-up here: https://www.daily.co/blog/the-worlds-fastest-voice-bot/
Comment linking /blog/the-worlds-fastest-voice-bot/
on “Show HN: Voice bots with 500ms response times”Submitted PhoneLLM Alpha 1: Open-weight LLM for voice agent use cases as a story · 1 points
HN discussionGitDuck’s cofounder here. The video tech is pretty simple for now as we are using https://daily.co for that. Daily was pretty easy to set up. If you have a React app, by following this guide [1] you can have a simple video chat quite quickly (in a matter of few hours). Happy to answer if you have more specific questions. [1] https://www.daily.co/blog/building-a-custom-video-chat-app-w...
Comment linking /blog/building-a-custom-video-chat-app-with-react
on “Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing”Submitted Benchmarking STT for Voice Agents – 10 Services, 1k Samples, Semantic WER as a story · 1 points
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